from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Feminine Character and Behaviour
Agress, L. The Feminine Irony: Women on Women in Early Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Cranbury (NJ): Associated UPs, 1978.
Aragón Varo, Asunción. "Manuales de conducta e imaginario femenino en el siglo XVIII." Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional AEDEAN.Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla, 1999. 181-86.*
Arbuthnot, Alexander. The Praises of Women. Poem.
Bennett, Arnold. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-Discord
Blamires, Alcuin, et al., eds. Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
Coates, Jennifer. "'Thank God I'm a Woman': The Construction of Differing Femininities." In The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader. Ed. Deborah Cameron. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1998. 1999. 295-320.*
Controverse sur l'Ame de la Femme. Amsterdam, 1744.
Darwin, Erasmus. Plan for the Conduct of Female Education.
Dekker, Thomas. The Batchelor's Banquet, wherein is prepared sundry Dainty Dishes, &c. pleasantly discoursing the variable Humours of Women, &c. 1603. Ed. Grosart.
Diderot, Denis. Sur les femmes. Paris: Léon Pichon, 1919.
_____. "Sobre las mujeres." In Diderot, Escritos filosóficos. Ed. F. Savater. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1975.
Du Boscq (Père). L'Honnête Femme.
Dunton, John. The Ladies Dictionaries. 1694.
Eichner, Hans. "The Eternal Female." In Faust. By .J. W. Goethe. Ed. Cyrus Hamlin. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1976.
Espinosa, Juan de. Diálogo en laudes de las mujeres: Cualidades buenas y malas de las mujeres. 16th century. Ed. Angela González Simón. Madrid: Instituto Nicolás Antonio / Biblioteca de Antiguos Libros Hispánicos, 1946.
García Landa, José Ángel. "The Eye of Prey." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 August 2005. (Inés Arredondo, Francine Van Hove, gaze).
_____. "En la raja." Rev. of In the Cut, dir. Jane Campion. In García Landa, Vanity Fea (11 Dec. 2008).
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Gisbourne, Thomas. An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex. London: 1797.
Goldsmith, Oliver. "The Ladies' Trains Ridiculed." In Essays of Oliver Goldsmith. London: Macmillan, 1904. 158-61.
Halifax (George Savile, Lord Halifax). Advice to a Daughter. 1688.
Harris, Andrea L. "(Re)Placing the Feminine in Feminist Theory." In Harris, Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. 1-24.*
_____. "'A Secret Second Tongue': The Enigma of the Feminine in Marianne Hauser's The Talking Room." In Harris, Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. 97-128.*
Hazlitt, William. "Simple Girls." 1821. In Hazlitt, Selected Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. 454-7.*
Johnson, Samuel. "Female Cowardice." The Rambler (34). 1750-2. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1953.
_____. "Unhappiness of Women." Rambler 39.
_____. "Misery of a Modish Lady." Rambler 42.
_____. "A Country Housewife." Rambler 51.
_____. "A Gay Widow's Impatience." Rambler 5.
_____. "A Young Lady Longs for London." Rambler 62.
_____. "History of a Beauty." Rambler 130, 133.
_____. "Misella Debauched." Rambler 170, 171.
Martin le Franc. Chaperon des Dames.
Montaigne, Michel de. "De trois bonnes femmes." In Essais II. (Folio). 518-26.*
Montherlant. Sur les Femmes.
Ginés y Ortiz, Adela. Apuntes para un álbum del bello sexo: Tipos y caracteres de la mujer. Ed. Mª I. Jiménez Morales. Madrid: Ayto. de San Agustín del Guadalix, 1995.
Polwhele, Richard (Rev.). The Unsex'd Females. 1798.
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago. La mujer: Conversaciones e ideario recogidos por Margarita Nelken. Con una advertencia preliminar, escrita expresamente para esta obra por el autor. Madrid: Aguilar, 1932. Rpt. 1933, 1938.
_____. La mujer: Conversaciones e ideario. Argentina, 1941.
_____. La mujer: conversaciones e ideario. Facsimile ed. of 1932. Foreword by Santiago Lorén. Introd. Jacobo Israel Garcón and Javier de la Puerta. Zaragoza: Libros Certeza, 1999.*
Rodríguez García, José Luis. "La consideración sartreana de la feminidad." Tropelías 7/8 (1996/97 [issued 1999]): 337-47.*
Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. London: Routledge, 1907?
Salter, Thomas. A Mirror mete for all Mothers, Matrones and Maidens, intituled the Mirrhor of Modestie. 1579. In Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England 1500-1700. Ed. Suzanne Trill et al. London: Arnold, 1997. 44-49.*
Simmel, Georg. "Cultura femenina." In Cultura femenina y otros ensayos. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1933. 5th ed. 1946. 9-56.*
_____. "Filosofía de la coquetería." In Cultura femenina y otros ensayos. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1933. 5th ed. 1946. 57-82.*
_____. "Lo masculino y lo femenino." In Cultura femenina y otros ensayos. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1933. 5th ed. 1946. 83-122.*
Stubbes, Philip. A Christal Glasse, for Christian Women. 1591. In Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England 1500-1700. Ed. Suzanne Trill et al. London: Arnold, 1997. 57-61.*
Swetnam, Joseph. The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women. 1615. Rpt. in Half Humankind. Ed. Henderson and McManus.
_____. The Arraignement of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women. 1615. In Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England 1500-1700. Ed. Suzanne Trill et al. London: Arnold, 1997. 82-87.*
Swetnam the Woman-hater Arraigned by Women. Pamphlet 1620.
T. E. The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights. London, 1632.
Thornton, Bonnell. (On the Female Thermometer). The Connoisseur 85 (11 Sept. 1754).
Vives, Juan Luis. De institutione feminae Christianae. 1523.
_____. The Instruction of a Christen Women. Trans. Richard Hyrde. 1530. In Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England 1500-1700. Ed. Suzanne Trill et al. London: Arnold, 1997. 23-27.*
Weisstein, Naomi. "Psychology Constructs the Female." In Woman in Sexist Society. Ed. Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran. New York: Basic Books, 1971.
Wilkes, John. Essay on Woman. London, 1763.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. London: Joseph Johnson, 1792. 2nd ed. 1792. Rpt. 1796.
_____. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: Dent, 1977.
_____. A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Ed. Miriam Kramnick. (Penguin Classics). New York: Penguin, 1975.
_____. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Ed. Carol H. Poston. 2nd ed. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1988.*
_____. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Selection. In Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy. Ed. Marilyn Butler. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984. 1996. 74-79.*
_____. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. Ed. Robert Clark and Thomas Healy. London: Hodder Headline-Arnold, 1997. 668-69.*
_____. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Wollstonecraft, Political Writings. Ed. Janet Todd. (World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 63-284.*
_____. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 2nd rev. ed. 1792. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 166-92.*
Literature
Davis, John. "Contention between a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid." Poem. In Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsody. 1602.
Espronceda, José de. "A una dama burlada." Poem. In Espronceda, Obras poéticas. Ed. Leonardo Romero Tobar. Barcelona: RBA, 1994. 1999. 43-44.*
Field, Nathan. Woman Is a Weathercock. 1609, pub. 1612. Rpt. by Collier.
_____. Amends for Ladies. c. 1611. Rpt. by Collier.
Goldsmith, Oliver. "A Lady of Fashion in the Time of Anna Bullen Compared with One of Modern Times." Lady's Magazine (October 1760).
How a Man May Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. 1602. Poem. In Hazlitt's Dodsley.
Ingram, Anne. "An Epistle to Mr. Pope, Occasioned by his Characters of Women." 1736. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2599-2603.*
Leapor, Mary. "An Essay on Woman." 1751. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2603-5.*
Molière. Les Femmes savantes. Comedy. 1672.
Newman, Arthur. Pleasure's Vision, with Desert's Complaint; and a short Dialogue of a Woman's Properties, betweene an Old Man and a Young. 1619.
Patmore, Coventry. "The Angel in the House." Poem. 1854-63.
Pope, Alexander. "Sylvia, a Fragment." Miscellanies 1727. Included later in "Of the Characters of Women."
_____. "Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women." 1735. Included as the second of the four Epistles to Several Persons. 1744.
_____. "Epistle II. To a Lady. Of the Characters of Women." In The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Ed. Adolphus William Ward. London: Macmillan, 1879. 236-43.*
_____. "Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women." In Eighteenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Ed. Nalini Jain and John Richardson. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. 302-18.*
_____. "Epistle 2. To a Lady (Of the Characters of Women)." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2592-99.*
_____. "On Certain Ladies." Epigram. In The Poetical Works of Pope. Ed A. W. Ward. London: Macmillan, 1879.486.*
_____. "Celia." Epigram. In The Poetical Works of Pope. Ed A. W. Ward. London: Macmillan, 1879. 486.*
Rodríguez García, J. L."La consideración sartreana de la feminidad." Tropelías 7/8 (1996/97 [issued 1999]): 337-47.*
Sinclair, May. The Three Sisters. Novel. 1914.
_____. The Three Sisters. London: Virago, 1981.
_____. Mary Olivier: A Life. Novel. 1919.
_____. Mary Olivier; A Life. London: Virago, 1980.
_____. Life and Death of Harriett Frean. Novel. 1922.
_____. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean. London: Virago, 1995.
Swift, Jonathan. "The Furniture of a Woman's Mind." Poem. 1727. In The Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1973. 529-31.*
_____. "The Lady's Dresing Room." Poem. 1730, pub 1732. In The Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1973. 535-38.*
_____. "The Lady's Dressing Room." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2582-83.*
_____. "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed." Satirical poem. 1731. In The Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1973. 538-40.*
See also Women's Studies; Antifeminist works.
